Does anyone have a spare/know where I can purchase the plastic heatsink
retention bracket, usually attached to a P4 motherboard?
Kustom PC's sell them -
http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/Kustom_PCs_Shop_Ducting___Fan_Brackets_27.html ,

Hithere,
I have a Shuttle SN45G2 with an Athlon 2500+ cpu, and 2x 256 DDR 333.
http://eu.shuttle.com/fn45.htm#mainboardfn4
This pc makes a little more noise than I would like it to. The vents are

I just bought two sticks, 512 MB each of PC3200 Corsair Value Select memory
and have ot been able to get them to run at 200 MHz.
My system is a P4-1.8A on an Asus P4S533.  The DIMMS are installed in slots
1 and 3.  Both DIMMS have the same LOT number but the part numbers on the

I have seen lots of reviews of videocards and the results are usually based
of fps.  Could someone tell me the *minimum* fps is required for not seeing
"lagging" in games, so that the game runs smooth?  Also, when they say the
minimum fps seen was 6 (for sake of discussion), the ...

I'm going to make some modifications to my motherboard as described on:
http://tipperlinne.com/p2b-ds150.htm
I have a question about 10K ohm resistor. There is used the term "The
10K ohm *programming resistor*". Since I'm not a professional I would

OK, I've got this computer that's pretty old, and, to tell you the truth, I
don't have enough cash to buy myself a better one, so I decided to overclock
it in order to increase it "functionality".
But there's a problem. I don't know how :)

bought mobile 2500+ cpu and asus a7n8x-x motherboard, and samsung
512mb ddr pc400 ram
and the board alreayd has lates bios as well
so i boot it up and its at 600mhz or 800mhz don't remember

Whats stoping my overclock of my Mobile 2500 ?   
Mobile 2500 overclocked to 2.5 EASY, Abit NF7-S 2.0.
Its running 12.5 X 200=2.5ghz.
Now even if i run it at 12.5x 205 it wont boot ?, now thats with ram

i'm awaiting the arrival of my cpu in the mail and have been prepping my
mobo in anticipation, but the math isn't making sense.
the 3200+ batron is definitely a 200mhz FSB, and the mobo definitely
supports it and is configured that way (soyo SY-KT600+).  but what about

I want a new graphics card to replace my old GF4 Ti 4200.
I've read that the NVIDIA will slot in to my system and work first time but
to add a 9800 or x800 then I would have to get used to editing files and/or
applying patches to enable the card to work at full speed.

Having done a bit of research, looked at what my supplier (who will do the
actual system build) have available, and decided on my price range, I've
narrowed down my choice of CPUs to the following 5:
AMD Athlon XP 3200+ Barton OEM (400Mhz FSB) (£90.16)

I had an old Celeron 400 / 256MB RAM.
I formatted it, installed Windows XP and everything went fine.
I was working with it the whole day without touching any settings, or
anything else - just playing solitaire and then shut it down without

Actually, I have a number of old AMD CPUs salvaged as part of old upgrades
and the like.  I'm now trying to fit them to a rogue collection of old-ish
and occasionally new but hardly top-end MBs to make some slightly upgraded
systems for where I work.

currently I am running my XP 3200+ at 210 MHz FSB with 2310 MHz real speed.
I am not sure though if changing the FSB also affects the PCI bus clock
on my nforce2 Ultra 400 board Epox 8RDA3+. There is no BIOS option for
adjusting PCI clock speed and I would not like to risk data ...

ok, I know this has been asked before, for that I'm sorry.
If I got a 3.0GHz 800
how far may I be able to push it on air only.
Price is coming down, and am thinking about getting one.